News Brief

6/14/2013, Tammuz 6, 5773

Syria Has Used Chemical Arms on Rebels

American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war in Syria. According to an internal memorandum circulating inside the United States government on Thursday, the “intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year.”